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Loblaw-Shoppers Merger: Torys, BLG, and Osler among key players in...
REUTERS/Mark Blinch Under pressure from powerhouses Wal-Mart and Target, Loblaw Companies, Canada’s largest food retailer, announced Monday that it will buy Shoppers Drug Mart for $12.4 billion in cash...
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Stikemans spearheads; Davies and BLG advise on HBC’s $2.9B luring of luxury...
REUTERS/J.P. Moczulski/Files Exactly two weeks after Canada’s retail make-up was changed when its biggest grocer, Loblaws, bought its biggest pharmaceutical chain, Shoppers Drug Mart, North America’s...
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Exxon/Imperial Oil break drought and ground in West with advice from Blakes,...
REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi/Files ExxonMobil is no stranger to seeking lucrative oil and gas assets, and ConocoPhillips is conveniently no stranger to selling billions of dollars worth of them. So when...
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Blakes’ Pamela Hughes’ exemplary experience toward becoming first Canadian...
Pam Hughes/Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Pamela Hughes is not unfamiliar with international legal territory. In her 30-plus years of practice, the Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP senior partner has...
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BlackBerry and Fairfax Complete $1B Financing for Troubled Smartphone maker,...
Little came out of Mike Lazaridis’s efforts when, in September 2013, he approached two US private equity firms, Blackstone Group and the Carlyle Group, about a possible offer for BlackBerry....
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Rogers in-house and Covington & Burling counsel in NHL Broadcast Rights...
REUTERS/Aaron Harris Rogers Communications President and CEO Nadir Mohamed said that his company intends to make Sportsnet the number one sports media brand in Canada. That statement would appear to be...
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Torkin Manes, Stikemans, and McCarthys Advise on Bain Capital Acquisition of...
Nearly two weeks after the Canadian Marketing Association named Canada Goose President and CEO Dani Reiss Canada’s 2013 Marketer of the Year, the iconic parka maker was sold earlier this week to US...
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Stikemans, Davies advising on Cadillac Fairview’s purchase of two HBC properties
REUTERS/Mark Blinch What the Eaton Centre lost in the iconic Sears, it made up for in attracting the likes of US luxury retailers Nordstrom and on Monday morning, literally by (pedestrian walkway)...
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Osler and McCarthys advising on Mattel’s acquisition of Mega Brands
REUTERS/Peter Jones/Files The world’s number one toymaker, Mattel, is set to acquire Canadian Mega Brands in a foreign inbound deal worth $460 million that Mattel says will help it compete with Lego....
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‘A new type of retail market’: Loblaw-Shoppers deal clears competition review
Approximately eight months after the deal was announced, the Competition Bureau has finally cleared the blockbuster $12.4-billion merger between Loblaw and Shoppers Drug Mart — pending some...
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